BLASTCAST - Path of Exile 2 Early Access Podcast Speedrun Edition

[@maxrollgg]

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[@Sadbringer]

bruv you have that in description

[@havoc616vods]

Thanks for organising this, was a blast!

[@michaelc9056]

Yeah Tuna has been popping off with these BlastCasts. Thanks to all the racers for joining, awesome insights!

[@dakotacouch5642]

Is havoc walking on a treadmill like an absolute Chad?

[@stympt1nag]

No he's just moon walking inverted

[@Oberjin]

He's training to outrun the incoming nerfs

[@corp3532]

havoc is going to come out and flex on everyone like tie23 did at the next exilecon. The winning strat was leaked

[@ByoUng-g4c]

calm down bud

[@alien9o0]

He definitely doesn't seem to be "speedrunning".... Badum tsss

[@Moonmager]

It's actually a cool idea for a PoB race-- give everyone some specific pieces of gear to choose from, and see who can make the most dps with it

[@benjaminlucza8235]

Tuna is a legend for bringing all the legends here to the podcast!

[@Peter_Tissot]

I suspect Havoc616 is the guy who created the Stash Tab folder named Elon's Maps

[@TheTanelChannel]

Begins at 07:22 :D hope GGG finds time from the bug fix patches to bring out a decent balance patch every month aswell

[@Liratan]

I'd bet there's going to be a pretty large patch in the next week or two but it can't fix everything. If we're super lucky we'll get the druid and huntress this month but than Poe1 league is almost certainly in February and I really hope they make this a banger league. I have a few friends that really bounced off of PoE2 at least in EA and I really hope for their sake we get a banger poe 1 league after all this wait.

[@TheTanelChannel]

@@Liratan if im honest im not expecting any new classes until 1.0 full release with the acts. Otherwise whats the point in full release, just to play 3 more acts? Naah, they gonna hold everything back and just focus on bug fixes and balancing. MAYBE they gonna work on endgame but I doubt, everything will be saved for the full release, including an entire overhaul of the endgame which is super lacking atm, its like almost non existent.

[@martinbobis6764]

i feel like a good option can be a tablet that changes x amount of nodes as specific biome or specific layout, that way you can use the atlas node that gives specific increases and you can sort of do the good layouts and then go to a tower and reroll for more of those type of layouts in between of throwing the different mechanics, and those can still roll a prefix and affix like other tablets

[@DesertWooder]

Thank you for the podcast! The flashes on Carn's face were sending me 😂

[@BigB0ss00]

Wasn't Palsteron the director or co director of the poe branch of Maxroll?

[@mas0ny11]

Anyone know this tech carn is taking about that's warrior only and can fix clear if heralds get nerfed to not be able to inflict ailments?

[@josha3312]

You can 3 to 1 lesser essence for a chance at a greater essence

[@SuliXbr]

dude you can slap temporalis choir on any class, I would just do that for warrior.

[@gkaskavelis]

What a podblast! Thank you for organizing this Director ❤

[@TheTanelChannel]

13:05 - Its been a month and Carn has only finished ACT 1.. ONCE. Thats crazy!

[@terminalray1300]

Especially crazy considering you have to do it 2x to get to maps😂

[@dustinrollins8559]

Hes competing for SSF #1

[@nikroth]

Act 1 is absolutely the best. I really want them to rework 2 and 3

[@MrRafagigapr]

Act 2 needs a bit more side content , act 3 seems too stretched out

[@Oberjin]

​@@Retalin_nah bro the sanctum under lut gholein was peak gaming and nothing has come close to matching the atmosphere of the act 3 jungle.

[@relentlessnights4211]

Act two is great once you figure out the caravan. Act 3 though phew a tough act to swallow.

[@nikroth]

@@relentlessnights4211 for me to be happy i need them both to be smaller

[@the1sH0]

@@MrRafagigapr i felt like act 3 is rushed... the maps are big with "you have to find this key to do that" mutlible times AND the story kinda felt lifeless i could not connect to the characters with "alba should know about this" with no development for a connection between the char and her. plus the only thing she "knows" is putting a soulstone (key) into a keyhole Same with the end. its cool to see the tech and culture on the last levels... but the last fight is just "I WANNE KILL YOU - oh you have hands... i guess i join you" Pace and world development in act1 was the best so far, act2 started to kinda fall apart

[@blazedehart2748]

14:30 the rng is crazy in this game. You are gear starved and have no crafting at all to use to fix it for most of the campaign. I have legit played into maps with lvl 30 gear and single digit res. It’s pretty wild.

[@Alexia-ys6yx]

It kinda feels like the game is balanced way more around the top range of gear rolls, while PoE1 was more balanced around the mid range. So you find something really strong at the start, but then need to find something either on the same level on a later item, or even better rolls to even get any upgrade.

[@riveteye93]

Skill issue Learn to use your orbs, check ssf players on how to do it

[@ferinzz]

PoB speedrun : Make X under-utilized gem reach the highest numbers. Then play the build. Races : There is one guy who was setting up the races. That one guy is also the person making all the bosses so... He's busy XD Magic find : anecdote -> David Brevik recently found a bug with his randomizer because it was using a 32 bit integer instead of 64. But his whole system was assuming 64 bit. It might not be just about tweaking numbers.

[@an0mndr]

16:56 new maps are my most anticipated things to come with new acts (besides the acts themselves of course)

[@alexdougal8968]

at 49:00 when talking about speedrunners killing racing - One solution would be to have a Draft and teams. For example Quin, Ziz, Steel Team captains. You draft 4 player teams. Race is still SSF. Reward for best average team time as well as best overall time as well as best slowest time (best of the weakest links...or maybe the team with the lowest overall time has to do some silly punishment like fantasy football losers) Before the event there would be great content because the team captains would need to be watching everyone's practice runs and deciding who they want to draft The draft would be great content cause everyone is shitting on everyone and gambling on who's gonna be good. Lots of fun production/design options The race would be fun because you're averaging 4 ppl's times so it will make it look closer than it is

[@zZSleepytimeZz]

That would be good for a gimmick but in the long run people who arent racing themselves wouldnt care about keeping up to that degree with drafts and shit + making a single player game not single player while fun as a gimmick, i highly doubt the racers would enjoy that in the long run either.

[@andrewjackson1915]

A great race would everyone same level in all white gear, same relics and run the 4 trials of sekahmah

[@WraeclastRoadhouse]

Havent even started but would just like to say i love these and keep it up! These long form podcast style talks help my work nights fly by

[@thaddaustentakel7620]

The flashes are actually lakes of shocked ground XD

[@samuelzachary8723]

I think community funded racing is the best way, the investment directly correlates with the interest of watching.

[@dylannelson1638]

Havoc chillin on a treadmill, shaved in a beater goes hard

[@CivicDudeGaming]

Hey guys, great podcast. Here's a thought about the "Pro vs Casual" race idea. Have everybody just run the racing event like normal, and then at the end of it, classify anyone who is in the top 10% (or whatever top percentile of total times) of race times as being "pro" and everybody else as "casual".

[@dalaraz1]

act 3 seriously fills like 2 acts squeezed in one. like it should have ended on the canal area right when you lower the waters,at least size wise.

[@LuckyLlamaLiam]

holy line up

[@Awokei2879]

Love that everyone else experiences stuff the same. Like the walking during load screen thing, nobody ever talks about it but we all do it, haha. Also, I’m no racer but I’m pretty sure Monk Glacial Cascade is gonna be top 3 for racing act 1, it does so much damage to bosses it’s insane

[@CapeSkill]

+ freeze buildup has to be nice too, glacial cascade made ascendancy so ez in early game

[@RPGabe]

I get that focusing dev time on racing probably doesn't make a lot of sense, but racing events are a great way to market the game. A little support can go a long way.

[@kalashydra9016]

1:21:56 ngl i like rarity , im curently like t7 maps and the drops feel nice , i dont get crazy amount of curency just like 1-2 ex some alch/vaal per map (maybe 0-3 uniques) i got like 170% rarity . if they nerf rarity the loot will be non existent lol . if you think rarity is problem maybe its the amount you get from high tier maps thats the problem and not rarity itself

[@Dereliction2]

Great Blastcast!

[@rehab8166]

carn just gaming the whole time LMAO

[@vincelot86]

Bro i made like 5 alts and played them all through the campaign. I was feeling like i know the layouts pretty well now and then i started a hardcore character yesterday and the whole map was different. I was like wtf

[@bawzzzz]

Having some timestamps in the description would be nice

[@Cham741]

That Carn guy is a nightmare to understand, fucking hell.

[@iwantsaveu]

POE1 has been build for many many years, unlike POE2, they need time, and it is different game, maybe that's why some feature you guys think it is good in POE1 but they do not apply in POE2.

[@ThePlatinumx]

i think nobody complains about changes itself. people complain because they have 10 years experience and change most things to the worse. i dont mind if things change, but if they change things they should get better.

[@iwantsaveu]

@@ThePlatinumx GGG is trying something new in POE2 that didnt appear in POE1. When something is different and new, how do they make it better? They arent just reusing the same concepts and polishing them, apparently they need more time shape the game better, same as POE1 it get better overtime.

[@iwantsaveu]

@@ThePlatinumx Why can’t they make it better? It sounds too simple and easy to say

[@ThePlatinumx]

@@iwantsaveu the question is why did they implement things worse? why is crafting worse? why is the atlas worse? why is the skilltree worse? if i have something good, why change it to the worse instead of just take it like it is? i dont mind if things are different, but they have to be better then. if not, dont change it.

[@iwantsaveu]

@@ThePlatinumx GGG wants POE2 to be way better than POE1, and they can't achieve that without making changes, like the atlas, crafting, trials, etc. The skill tree is definitely going to be different since there are now 12 classes. I think the game is still fine overall. If it was really as bad as you're making it sound, a lot of people would've already stopped playing. GGG has always been unafraid to try new things, even if they don't work out at first. That's how they've improved the game over time, trial and error. You never know until you try. Once they figure things out, it'll get better

[@GiefCat]

Lets go!

[@Trev0413]

o7 bois, what a great crew of gamers

[@philippejoseph1215]

"it might be op but its fun". lets keep the fun thing and make the bad thing op, than scale monster to the pace they want. But for fuck sake dont ask them to nerf FUN

[@i7ven]

tyty capping 19:13. We all know the fastest is Ranger - +8% movement speed at level 6. Plus another 10% with Deadeye Ascendancy. Easy +18% movement speed for a 8-10 hour campaign is huge.

[@Nnothingg-]

plus the easy unique thats only lvl 12 requirement that gives 20% u are zooooming

[@rustyking23able]

Race idea, you get a random pre built gear in act 4

[@Thunder_God_Bane]

What we don’t need is any changes made to benefit “speed-running”

[@lizard_irl]

This podcast is longer than their poe1 speedruns lol Too short!

[@CrouchingTuna]

[@eepopgames2741]

They should meme on us for the first event and do endless Dreadnaught.

[@tadejpeckaj1151]

So havoc is just there like buff AF and constantly moving on the treadmill not saying anything and just nodding all the time? 💪💪💪

[@garf412]

name in lights should be optional, there are some of us that HATE it, it causes stress and mental health issues for a fun game that is enjoyed. if you want / like etc then great but for those of us that don't, i shouldnt be forced. A group of us have been asking GGG for this for YEARS.

[@SuliXbr]

I doubt very much they have different layout like said here. I have 3 characters in maps and 1 in act 5 , different classes , it was the same. I have 350h played.

[@Mike-hy8cs]

Honestly i dont think heralds need to be nerfed that much. I think its the uniques mixed with the broken builds that need to be nerfed. If you nerf heralds too much you basically make even mediocore builds suffer

[@xDBoomer]

Havoc said top 4 but where's Tie23he?

[@ExiledVessel]

POE 2 ROYALE! THIS APRIL! MAKE IT HAPPEN!

[@freefox303]

Do a BLAMT race those were so fun!

[@ExiledVessel]

The act weapon drops is pretty stupid. Runes and quality give too much value but I feel like those items are too rare and if its an elemental weapon its probably dog shit and the runes compete with resist runes that you're probably down bad for. At least for staffs/bow/xbow currently. I also fear the drop rates when they put the other weapon types into the game. If we get the same amount of total loot then getting your preferred base to drop is going to feel bad.

[@Varadex1]

The retention rate is basically spot on with PoE1. ~50% after 1 month. Lets not glaze too hard.

[@bobbobb5759]

Its crushing POE1's numbers - be serious

[@Varadex1]

@@bobbobb5759 What do you think "rate" in "retention rate" means?

[@matte5404]

But what are you comparing POE2s retention rate to in POE1? Leagues? Cause that's not really a fair comparison.

[@cataclysmal5315]

Nope, all wrong. PoE2 had a retention rate of 62.37% on day 31(Dec 6 to Jan 6), this is higher than the last 16 leagues from PoE1(until metamorph, which had a 62.4% retention) Settlers had 36.9% retention and Affliction 53.8%(highest after metamorph). All day 31, ofc. Metamorph was released on December 2019, for context. PoE2 day 31st player count: 286,444 PoE2 day 1: 459,263.

[@matte5404]

@cataclysmal5315 Where are you getting these numbers from?

[@12deathguard]

Havoc looks really creepy in this. Why are his ....eyeholes black but also following me?

[@OldGoat-cw8he]

Monk has 3 good speed builds. Ice Strike, Flurry or Flickerstrike. Double Herald, crit. I am sure you god runners can hard run. 1-14 is kinda sus.

[@MichaelAE]

"It was like this in PoE 1" is not a good argument. War has existed for pretty much all of modern human history. Does that mean life wouldn't be better without war?

[@furlough2327]

poe 2 turned me into an idle enjoyer

[@Diddykonga]

1:21:00 "Ours"

[@DanboReviews]

So many cuties 😊 Thanks for the podcast!

[@Dropbare]

Give the end-game an A? wtf

[@cataclysmal5315]

Considering the fact that most modern ARPGs don't even have a functional endgame, it's pretty plausible. PoE1s endgame is the best there is.

[@feelingthislife]

Debunked. Class doesn't matter. End game map w my monk was the same as my merc when I got there

[@zmattchiasson]

Uthermal is da man, love him

[@sirrubbers5797]

Kripp did 7:15 to maps. Temple of filth and the bog my least favorite maps in campaign

[@michaelmaier8133]

I tried, just to have tried it. With full pre-arranged leveling gear, 2 times back to back, 9 hours and 8 hours...

[@sirrubbers5797]

@michaelmaier8133 still good. Id be like 15 🤣

[@SuliXbr]

This is the time to nerf rarity though ... EA is the time to nerf stuff

[@nickmc9414]

I can't understand a word the dude on the trendmill says

[@TheSeth256]

I want BLAMT races back!

[@TheSeth256]

For anyone curious, these were meme races with following affixes: **B**lood Magic (players have blood magic keystone), **L**ethal (Monsters do 50% increased damage and an additional 50% damage as all three elements), **A**ncestral(Many totems), **M**ulti-Projectile(Monsters fire 4 additional projectiles), **T**urbo(Monsters move, attack and cast 60% faster.

[@SuliXbr]

Dude ... grim feast is not that op, it looks good on paper, it looks fun seeing the big numbers, but it just helps with 1 single big hit then its gone, its not that op.

[@reneindlekofer1946]

NICE TYTY WAtching uthermal ;)

[@charleshartlen3914]

timestamp intro bro...

[@wiziek]

Did they dicuss Elon Musk or was it too early?

[@cameron15911]

Get rid of the Christmas tree 😂😂

[@ShaddyzZz]

Right? Christmas was two weeks ago mate, get it out of here 😂

[@savic1984]

Maybe he's Orthodox

[@owlmostdead9492]

Current endgame 8/10? That's delusional. It's bad, like really bad.

[@mirellie4445]

Hearing tyty say his A3 runs are still 6 hours makes me feel so incredible. it means my speedruns are faster than tyty at 4:39!

[@circaen]

With how much more skill expression POE 2 allows, POB is going to bring a lot of people down if they are constantly looking for biggest numbers. One of the more popular builds has become Ice Strike Monk & while there are pieces of the build that you are better off doing, there are dozens of permutations that change the feel / way you play. I've been Monk since launch & have had an insane amount of fun remaking the build with different tweaks. Some could be considered 'best' but many are just better at some things or feel smoother. I can just see POB pushing people to feel like there is one way to do these things.

[@abelke]

I may possibly have the farts

[@SloppyGarlic]

Read this while dropping the most egregious poo

[@OldGoat-cw8he]

Don't tell them but with a budget you can double herald and set it up to screen clear WITHOUT the ring, lol. PLEASE nerf the ring and leave the nodes and gems for Herald alone. Lmao. The crit scaling, cross ailment is AMAZING. Scales well. Leaves you MORE damage with good ring rolls.

[@ShaddyzZz]

Heralds wont be able to afflict any ailments, just wait.

[@SuliXbr]

You do torchlight infinite now for a while

[@Darkhateable]

250K and the game isnt even that good

[@dylanstanfill2897]

Lol dude says he feels like it's been developing slowly when GGG has literally been on holiday since launch 😂 what a shit take

[@Jarenmarzra]

Seeing as they dropped multiple substantial patches after launch, looks like you actually have the shit take

[@dylanstanfill2897]

@Jarenmarzra How so? It's very obvious development will be slow when there are no devs in the office to develop because they're on holiday 😂 and no they haven't lol. There's been one significant patch and it was a nerf patch mostly, the rest have been small bug fixes and addressed the temporalis dupe with one. There has been 0 content added since launch, which is to be expected when the devs are on holiday and it's only been a month since launch. What do you quantify as a substantial patch? Also, if you're right, which you aren't, then both him and I have shit takes 😂 It seems as though you're implying the devs have been putting in work releasing multiple substantial patches, which isn't the case, which means his take is shit because they are developing things at a quick rate, and my take would be shit because of the same reason. I'm not disagreeing with him, they are developing slowly since launch, I just think it's a shit take to point that out when everyone knows the devs are on holiday, so it's to be expected. If things continue at the pace they have been now that they're back off holiday, then you could say it's developing slowly seeing as there are now devs in office working on the game. I expect patches to become more frequent and substantial over the next month compared to the last. You know, because they're actually working on it now.

[@Cryttanz]

WASD is meh

[@Devildoginvu]

🤙

[@diablomix]

bring back baeclast

[@alejandronunez7650]

cant stand Havoc, the other 3 are fine..

[@tersiuss11]

I had to turn this off, because carn is unbearable to listen to

[@sirdoobiehowzer3888]

Good. Less losers on the video. Don’t come back 🎉

[@tersiuss11]

@@sirdoobiehowzer3888 nice try carn smurf

[@tttt-dx2nu]

is he really going to walk the whole time. cringe, im sea sick

[@sem1518]

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